River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1887-11-03

| 3. 600 as a reward The express company
and the passengers would give him $1,000
more
PETER sHocELEY shot and killed his father
ln-law, James Carey, and then blew out
his own brains, near New D. .ilngton, Ind,
on the 2Sth An old grudge was given as
the cause
FIRE on the 2Sth destroyed the Enter
prize newspaper office and several other
business pl4ees al Greensburg, Ind
II was decided at meeting Of employing
| job printers in Chicago ON the 2sth to
/ strenuously resist the demand Of the Chi
c 20 Typographical Union for nine-hour
+ day.
/ At the Pennsylvania depot in Chicago
I the body of a murdered man was discOv-
I cred on the 2s5h in a carriage that had
/ been shipped from New York
/ An exp os on in Holden's friedrich works
/ at NJ neral Point o.. on the 2Sth fatally
scalded -four persons and seriously injured
\ five others
I At negro camp-meetng near Brighton,
/ $ G.. on the 2Sth disturbance occurred
/ and one man was killed and six others were
4 fatally injured
/ The loss of the schooner W r Taylor,
I grain laden, from Chicago TO Kingston,
+ Ont. with all on Loard, was reported on
/ the 18th
/ TIE Central railway freight depot at Los
/ Angeles, Cal, and many ears were destroyed
1 BY ire on the 2sth, causing loss Of $780,
4 600 Ne insurance
MRs. HuHER. a Cincinnati woman, was
I sitting alone and asleep by her cooking
1 stove on the Goth when some burning coa.s
set fire 70 her clio hing and she was burned
To death.
The boarding house at the Iron Hill
I I vi a,
stroyed by ire on the Goth, and Mrs James
OBrien and four children were burned TO
( death
SALT LAKE CRY aCvices of the Goth say
/ that the leaders Of the Mormons have been
50 harrlssed and annoyed of late that they
would be quite wiling to openly forbid tine
! practice OF polygaIny if they were not afraid
that by SO doing they would endanger the
+ entire church structure.
TREsTLE WORK on the S. Paul railroad
near Homer, MINI, was on the 29th burned
I by fiends and p. .ssenger train was barely
4 saved from wreck
THE gale Oh he lakes on the Goth
wrecked many vessels, six being driven
ashore at Alpena
AT Tampa, Fla nineteen new cases OF
/ yellow fever were reported on the 3Oth,
ami three deaths
A SYNDICATE represented By ]. J. West
I and Clinton A. Snowden on the Doth pur-
/ chased the Chicago Times for 81 900, 600.
/ The new owners viii run the Times as an
/ independent sheet
| TIE steamer Superior arrived at Mil
waukee on the 20th, bringing news of the
4 loss of the propeller Vernon, near Manito-
/ voc, WIS. The Inflated vessel had on board
a crew of twenty-one men, besides pas
! sengers. the exact number not being
4 known, and all hands persisted
REAL ESTATE 70 the value of 100000
was given by Mr. D. X Pearsons and wife,
/ of Chicago, on the both to be equally
divided between the Congregational and
/ Presbyterian Theological seminaries in Chi
cage.
THE six-day walking-match at Kansas
City was won by Hoagland on the 30th, he
making $50 miles.
THE town hall and a livery stable with
horses at Cedarviile, o., were burned on the
/ both
W. H. REYNOLDS, connected in the oapa-
city of editor with the Ashland o. Times,
was shot and killed on the 10Th by James
Mason, brother of C. u. Mason, of Ashland,
| who had a libel suit against Reynolds
FoUR negroes convicted of the murder Of
!. man in Alabama were on the ooh SEN
fenced To be hanged